PIONEERING MISSIONER

Taranaki Daily News, 31 July 1934, Page 7

PIONEERING MISSIONER

MEMORIALS TO MARSDEN WOOL EXPERIMENT RECALLED SCENE IN NATIVE VILLAGE SIR JAMES PARR'S TRIBUTE By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, July 29. Six - James Parr, New Zealand High Commissioner, and Professor J. R. Elder, of Otago University, editor of Samuel Marsden’s papers, represented New Zealand at the unveiling of a monument to Marsden on the 170th anniversary of his birth in the picturesque village of Farsley, near Leeds. The monument stands near Marsden's birthplace on the site of the warehouse where the first consignment of Australian wool brought over by Marsden to Yorkshire for experimental purposes was stored. Sir James Parr also laid the foundation stone for a group of six Marsden memorial cottages for aged and indigent employees in the wool industry. Sir James paid a tribute to Marsden’s life and work in Australia and New Zealand as a missionary and practical pioneer. His zeal, faith and courage were responsible for the rapid conversion of the Maoris. Marsden’s name, he said, was highly reverenced in New Zealand.